Just over 2,000 landlords and letting agents were fined for offences under the Housing Act 2004 between 2006 and 2014.
Altogether, the 2,006 individuals and companies were fined nearly £3m, equating to under £1,500 per conviction.
About half are named in a database made public for the first time, following a Freedom of Information battle by the publication Environmental Health News.
The most prosecutions, of 256 landlords, were brought by councils in east London.
Local authorities in 11 magistrate areas, including Doncaster, Wigan and Corby, carried out only one prosecution each between 2006 and last year.
You can find the database of prosecutions here
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Is there any chance many of these will be communication/ language issues? Both the distribution and family name of those named indicate a healthy cultural diversity.
(sorry thats as close to political corrrectness as I can get)
And having performed their duties rather poorly, they jump on the HMO Licensing gravy train.